# bure
## English
### Etymology

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### Noun

bure (plural bures)
* A traditional Fijian cottage with a steep thatched roof and wide windows.

### Anagrams

* uber-, buer, Uber, ebru, erub, Rueb, rube, Rube, über-, Brue, uber, Reub

## Afrikaans
### Noun

bure
* plural of buur

## Champenois
### Noun

bure
* (Auve) butter

### References

* Tarbé, Prosper (1851) Recherches sur l'histoire du langage et des patois de Champagne‎ (in French), volume 1, Reims, page 109

## Danish
### Noun

bure n
* indefinite plural of bur

## French
### Etymology

From Latin burra, nominative feminine singular of burrus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /byʁ/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

bure f (plural bures)
* frieze (cloth)
* habit (monk's robe)

### Further reading

* “bure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin bura.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbu.re/
* Rhymes: -ure
* Hyphenation: bù‧re

### Noun

bure f (plural buri)
* beam of a plough

### Anagrams

* Urbe, urbe

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbuː.re/

### Noun

būre
* dative singular of būr

## Old French
### Alternative forms

* burre

### Etymology

From Latin butyrum.

### Noun

bure oblique singular, m (oblique plural bures, nominative singular bures, nominative plural bure)
* butter

#### Descendants

* Middle French: burre, beurre (regional)
** French: beurre (see there for further descendants)
* Norman: buure, burre, bür
* → Italian: burro
* → Neapolitan: burro
    Tarantino: burre
* → Sicilian: vurru

### References

* Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “butyrum”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 1: A–B, page 663
* “beurre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Old High German
### Noun

būre
* dative singular of būr

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbu.rɛ/
* Rhymes: -urɛ
* Syllabification: bu‧re
* Homophone: burę

### Adjective

bure
* inflection of bury:
** neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
** nonvirile nominative/accusative/vocative plural

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Unknown. First attested in the 17th century.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bûre/
* Hyphenation: bu‧re

### Noun

bȕre n (Cyrillic spelling бу̏ре, diminutive burénce)
* (regional) barrel

#### Declension
### References

* ↑ Matasović, Ranko (2016) “bure”, in Dunja Brozović Rončević, Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk, editors, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes I: A—Nj, Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 97

## Swahili
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic بَرِيء (barīʔ).

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Adjective

bure (invariable)
* free (obtainable without payment)

### Adverb

bure
* in vain; pointlessly; fruitlessly

## Swedish
### Verb

bure
* (dated) past subjunctive of bära

## West Makian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bu.ˈre/

### Noun

bure
* ginger

### References

* James Collins (1982) Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary‎, Pacific linguistics